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What is the big deal?

Before Facebook, Twitter, My Space, and in the primitive stages of the internet, I saw an ad in a national boating magazine under "Wanted" ( I am paraphrasing):

"I am a young 51 years young, recently widowed, looking to be the first mate on a boat either sail or power. I love being on the water and have 22 years of boating experience".

I do not see any harm is offering a place for people to hook up. They can use PM's, emails etc, to pursue (or not) their interests.

"What is beautiful is simple, and what is simple always works"....Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47.
Current bike: 2015 Yamaha TW 200, modified for road/street use with tire, sprocket upgrades. "Center yourself in the vertizontal. Ride a motorcycle...namaste' "

Before Facebook, Twitter, My Space, and in the primitive stages of the internet, I saw an ad in a national boating magazine under "Wanted" ( I am paraphrasing):

"I am a young 51 years young, recently widowed, looking to be the first mate on a boat either sail or power. I love being on the water and have 22 years of boating experience".

I do not see any harm is offering a place for people to hook up. They can use PM's, emails etc, to pursue (or not) their interests.

I don't think its a matter of there being any "harm" in it, just a matter of what the intent of this site is. Being everything to all just isn't going to add any value that I can see. Esp when you consider there are so many places where meeting up IS the intended purpose. And as you said, that was before there were other options so that seems a somewhat different set of circumstances.
RM

I don't think its a matter of there being any "harm" in it, just a matter of what the intent of this site is. Being everything to all just isn't going to add any value that I can see. Esp when you consider there are so many places where meeting up IS the intended purpose. And as you said, that was before there were other options so that seems a somewhat different set of circumstances.
RM

It comes down to odds. Let's assume a member is looking for a person and a key criterion is that the person rides a motorcycle. Say a BMW motorcycle.

So are the odds of finding a person of a given age range of the appropriate gender that is single, interesting, and interested, who rides a BMW motorcycle better on this site than on match.com or bikersanonymous.net or whatever? I don't know.

Paul Glaves - "Big Bend", Texas U.S.A
"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution." - Bertrand Russellhttp://web.bigbend.net/~glaves/

It comes down to odds. Let's assume a member is looking for a person and a key criterion is that the person rides a motorcycle. Say a BMW motorcycle.

So are the odds of finding a person of a given age range of the appropriate gender that is single, interesting, and interested, who rides a BMW motorcycle better on this site than on match.com or bikersanonymous.net or whatever? I don't know.

Hey Paul, I tried searching on the match.com online dating site for BMW and it doesn't work. They are always talking about cars! Or why they don't have a BMW.
That's why I have more than one bike.

I thought the real reason of this site was to promote BMW's and encourage future riders. (This next part is totally meant in jest) but say two riders end up hooking up, getting married and produce children aka future riders....

Thank you Paul Glaves

People do seek a commonality is all that I was trying to say.

In the words of my father: "People defy the laws of physics. In physics, opposites attract. With people, like attracts like. Sharp people will attract other sharp people. Ding bats will attract ding bats".

"What is beautiful is simple, and what is simple always works"....Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47.
Current bike: 2015 Yamaha TW 200, modified for road/street use with tire, sprocket upgrades. "Center yourself in the vertizontal. Ride a motorcycle...namaste' "